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This is the back advertisement in the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. Reprint, Version 1. This advertisement is ripped on the top left corner, obscuring much of the title and subtitle of the page. The first section of books listed are title which are priced at "ONE SHILLING EACH". These titles include "TABLE TURNING AND TABLE TALKING", "BEECHER'S LECTURES ON INTEMPERANCE", "TO YOUNG MEN ON THE VICES", "FERN LEAVES, FROM FANNY'S PORTFOLIO", "HISTORY OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION", "THE CHRISTMAS STOCKING" by Miss Wetherell, and "MRS. CHISHOLM'S EMIGRANT'S GUIDE". Below are books which are priced at "EIGHTEENPENCE EACH" These titles include Southworth's "Curse of Clifton", "Christmas Evening Legends", and "Mark Sutherland", Cumming's "The Lamlighter", Dennys's "Alpha", Carey's "Clovernook", the Glenluna Family's "Dollars and Cents", "Fern Leaves, From Fanny's Portfolio", Denison's "Home Pictures", "Loves of an Apothecary", and Mathews's "Moneypenny". Below the book listings is the name and address of the publisher.

This front page advertisement for the 1853 Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton shows the prices of "LITERATURE FOR THE RAIL," available to those on trains in that time period. The book titles listed on this page are: Illustrated History of the Expedition to the Crimea, The Smartest Nation in All Creation's Grins, The Yankee Showman's Life of Barnum, Yankee Cram, Poe's Tales of Myster, Imagination, and Humour, Mrs. Stowe's Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Hugo's Napoleon the Little, Parisan Sights and French Principles Seen Through American Spectacles, Life among the Giants of Patagonia, Houssaye's Philosophers and Actresses, Letters, Essays, and Speeches of Peter Plymley, The Senator's Son, Smith and Smith's Rejected Addresses, Nile Notes of a "Howadji", Twenty Years in the Phillippine Islands, The Old Guard of Napoleon, and Wellington: The Story of his Life, Battles, and Political Career. 

This first page of text from the 1853 Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton begins with the title of the novel at approximately 1/4 down the page. Underneath appears a simple zierrat which then leads to the Chapter number. Underneath the chapter is an excerpt from Longfellow's "It Is Not Always May":

"Enjoy the spring of love and youth

    To some good angel leave the rest,

For time will teach thee soon the truth,

    'There are no birds in last year's nest.'

                                           LONGFELLOW."

This is the first page of text in the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The title of the book appears approximately 1/4 down the page. Underneath the title is a plain zierrat which separates the book title from "CHAPTER I". Underneath the chapter is the last verse from Longfellow's "It is not Always May". Below the poem is where the chapter starts.

Page 1 of the Preface in the 1853 Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton, issue 1. This preface was written by Rev. C. B. Tayler.

This is the first page of the preface to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The title of the "Preface" appears approximately 1/3 down the page in gothic-style font. Underneath the title is a simple zierret which then gives way to the text beneath.

Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton included this Table of Contents in the single volume of their 1851 edition of The Wide, Wide World. This first page lists the first 24 chapters with the corresponding titles and pages.

This is the first page of the table of contents for the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The title of the page "CONTENTS" appears in gothic-style font, separated from the chapter titles by a simple zierrat. The chapters listed on this page are, "BREAKING THE NEWS", "GIVES SORROW TOTHE WINDS", "THE WORTH OF A FINGER-RING", "THE BITTER-SWEET OF LIFE", "A PEEP INTO THE WIDE WORLD", "NIGHT AND MORNING", "STRANGERS WALK AS FRIENDS", "LEAVES US IN THE STREET", "THE LITTLE QUEEN IN THE ARM-CHAIR", "MUD-AND WHAT CAME OF IT", "RUNNING AWAY WITH THE BROOK", "SPLITTERS", "HOPE DEFERRED", "MOTHER EARTH RATHER THAN AUNT FORTUNE", "COUNSEL, CAKES AND CAPTAIN PARRY", "DIFFICULTY OF DOING RIGHT", "LOSES CARE ON THE CAT'S BACK", "SHOWING THAT IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES WHITE IS BLACK", "HEADSICK AND HEARTSICK", "FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS", "SHOWS HOW MR. VAN BRUNT COULD BE SHARP UPON SOME THINGS", "HOW MISS FORTUNE WENT OUT AND PLEASURE CAME IN", and "SWEEPING AND DUSTING".

This is the fore edge of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The pages are faded with age and the back cover is missing.

This is the front cover of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The cover is faded on a brown background and features an illustration of Ellen and her parents framed by illustrated greenery which houses the title and publication information as well.